The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie is an award presented annually by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role on a television limited series or television movie for the primetime network season.

Since its inception, the award has been given to 53 actresses. Nicole Kidman is the current recipient of the award for her portrayal of Celeste Wright on Big Little Lies. Helen Mirren has won the most awards in this category with four and has received the most nominated for the award on ten occasions, the most within the category.

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Nicole Kidman
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Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an Australian actress and film producer. Kidmans breakthrough roles were in the 1989 feature film thriller Dead Calm, other successful films followed in the late 1990s. Her performance in the musical Moulin Rouge, earned her a second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical and her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her performances in the drama Birth and the thriller The Paperboy earned her Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress and her performance in the 2010 drama Rabbit Hole, which she also produced, earned Kidman further accolades, including a third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2012, she earned her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in the biopic Hemingway & Gellhorn. Kidmans performance in Lion earned her a fourth Academy Award nomination, Kidman has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006. In 2006, Kidman was made a Companion in the Order of Australia, as a result of being born to Australian parents in Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship in Australia and the United States. Kidman founded and owns the production company Blossom Films, Kidman was born 20 June 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were temporarily in the United States on educational visas. Her father was Antony Kidman, a biochemist, clinical psychologist and author and her mother, Janelle Ann, is a nursing instructor who edited her husbands books and was a member of the Womens Electoral Lobby. Kidmans ancestry includes Irish, Scottish, and English heritage, being born in Hawaii, she was given the Hawaiian name Hōkūlani. The inspiration for the name came from a baby elephant born around the time at the Honolulu Zoo but the name is also a commonly used Hawaiian name for girls. At the time of Kidmans birth, her father was a student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He became a fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health of the United States. Opposed to the war in Vietnam, Kidmans parents participated in anti-war protests while living in Washington, the family returned to Australia when Kidman was four and her mother now lives on Sydneys North Shore. Kidman has a sister, Antonia Kidman, a journalist. Kidman attended Lane Cove Public School and North Sydney Girls High School and she was enrolled in ballet at three and showed her natural talent for acting in her primary and high school years. She says that she was first inspired to become an actress upon seeing Margaret Hamiltons performance as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. Kidman has revealed that she was timid as a child, saying, I am very shy – really shy – I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness

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Judith Anderson
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Dame Judith Anderson, AC, DBE was an Australian-born British actress who had a successful career in stage, film and television. A preeminent stage actress in her era, she won two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award and was nominated for a Grammy Award and an Academy Award. She is considered one of the 20th-centurys greatest classical stage actors, Frances Margaret Anderson was born in 1897 in Adelaide, South Australia, to Jessie Margaret and James Anderson Anderson. She attended a school, Norwood. She began acting in Australia before moving to New York in 1918, Anderson established herself as a dramatic actress of note, making several appearances in Shakespearean plays. She maintained her name as her legal name, never legally taking the forename Judith as per the California Death Index registry. She made her debut in 1915, playing Stephanie at the Theatre Royal, Sydney. Leading the company was the Scottish actor Julius Knight whom she credited with laying the foundations of her acting skills. In the company were some American actors who convinced Anderson to try her luck in the United States and she travelled to California but was unsuccessful, then moved to New York, with an equal lack of success. After a period of poverty and illness, she work with the Emma Bunting Stock Company at the Fourteenth Street Theatre in 1918–19. She toured with stock companies until 1922 when she made her Broadway debut in On the Stairs using her true name. One year later, she had changed her acting forename to Judith and had her first triumph with the play Cobra co-starring Louis Calhern and she toured Australia in 1927 with three plays, Tea for Three, The Green Hat and Cobra. By the early 1930s, she had established herself as one of the most prominent theatre actresses of her era, in 1931, she played the Unknown Woman in the American premiere of Pirandellos As You Desire Me, filmed the following year with Greta Garbo in the same role. In 1936, Anderson played Gertrude to John Gielguds Hamlet in a production which featured Lillian Gish as Ophelia. In 1937, she joined the Old Vic Company in London and played Lady Macbeth opposite Laurence Olivier in a production by Michel Saint-Denis, at the Old Vic and the New Theatre. In 1942–43, she played Olga in Chekhovs Three Sisters, in a production also featured Katharine Cornell, Ruth Gordon, Edmund Gwenn, Dennis King. The production was so illustrious, it made it to the cover of Time, in 1947, she triumphed as Medea in a version of Euripides tragedy, written by the poet Robinson Jeffers and produced by John Gielgud, who played Jason. She was a friend of Jeffers and a frequent visitor to his home Tor House in Carmel and she won the Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance

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Lady Macbeth
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Lady Macbeth is a character in Shakespeares Macbeth. She is the wife of the plays antagonist, Macbeth, a Scottish nobleman, after goading him into committing regicide, she becomes Queen of Scotland, but later suffers pangs of guilt for her part in the crime. She dies off-stage in the last act, an apparent suicide, according to some genealogists, Lady Macbeth and King Duncans wife were siblings or cousins, where Duncans wife had a stronger claim to the throne than Lady Macbeth. It was this that incited her jealousy and hatred of Duncan, the characters origins lie of the accounts of Kings Duff and Duncan in Holinsheds Chronicles, a history of Britain familiar to Shakespeare. Lady Macbeth is a presence in the play, most notably in the first two acts. Following the murder of King Duncan, however, her role in the plot diminishes and she becomes an uninvolved spectator to Macbeths plotting, and a nervous hostess at a banquet dominated by her husbands hallucinations. Her fifth act sleepwalking scene is a point in the play. Has become a familiar to many speakers of the English language. The report of her late in the fifth act provides the inspiration for Macbeths Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow speech. Analysts see in the character of Lady Macbeth the conflict between femininity and masculinity, as they are impressed in cultural norms. Lady Macbeth suppresses her instincts toward compassion, motherhood, and fragility — associated with femininity — in favour of ambition, ruthlessness, and this conflict colours the entire drama, and sheds light on gender-based preconceptions from Shakespearean England to the present. In the account of King Duff, one of his captains, Donwald, Donwald then considers regicide at the setting on of his wife, who showed him the means whereby he might soonest accomplish it. Donwald abhors such an act, but perseveres at the nagging of his wife, after plying the Kings servants with food and drink and letting them fall asleep, the couple admit their confederates to the Kings room, where they then commit the regicide. The murder of Duff has its motivation in revenge, rather than ambition, not found in Holinshed are the invocation to the spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, the sleepwalking scene, and various details found in the drama concerning the death of Macbeth. Although Macbeths wife can be traced to a counterpart, Queen Gruoch of Scotland. Lady Macbeth makes her first appearance late in scene five of the first act, when King Duncan becomes her overnight guest, Lady Macbeth seizes the opportunity to effect his murder. The King retires after a night of feasting, Lady Macbeth drugs his attendants and lays daggers ready for the commission of the crime. Macbeth kills the sleeping King while Lady Macbeth waits nearby, when he brings the daggers from the Kings room, his Lady orders him to return them to the scene of the crime

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Hallmark Hall of Fame
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Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City-based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a long run, beginning in 1951. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been broadcast in color and it holds a place in television history as one of the first video productions to telecast in color, a rarity in the 1950s. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program where the title includes the name of its sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it only occasionally. The Hallmark Playhouse changed to more serious literature from all genres and it was the first time a major corporation developed a television project specifically as a means of promoting its products to the viewing public. The program was such a success that it was restaged by Hallmark several times during a period of fifteen years, amahl was also staged by other NBC television anthologies. Early productions included some of the works of Shakespeare, Hamlet, Richard II, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Twelfth Night. Biographical subjects were very eclectic, ranging from Florence Nightingale to Father Flanagan to Joan of Arc, in a few cases, the actors repeated their original Broadway roles. Two different productions of Hamlet have been broadcast on the Hallmark Hall of Fame, one featuring Maurice Evans, neither one was more than two hours long. Evans and actress Judith Anderson performed their famous stage Macbeth on the Hallmark Hall of Fame on two occasions, each time with a different supporting cast. It may have set a record for the most-nominated Shakespeare production to ever be televised and it was left to National Educational Television and Public Broadcasting Service to be the pioneers in presenting nearly complete Shakespeare productions on American television. As a result of Foote, Cone, and Belding Advertising executive, a Tale of Two Cities was the first Hallmark production to run three hours. The late 1980s featured productions such as Foxfire, My Name is Bill W. Sarah, Plain and Tall, to Dance With the White Dog, The Piano Lesson, and What the Deaf Man Heard. One installment, Promise, featuring James Garner and James Woods, won five Emmys, through the 1980s and 1990s, Hallmark Hall of Fame movies often had twice the budget of other network movies. Hallmark movies also ran approximately 10–15 minutes longer because Hallmark Cards fully sponsored the movies and had commercial breaks. Unlike most network movies of the period, Hallmark always filmed on location, for nearly three decades the series was broadcast by NBC, but the network cancelled it in late 1978 due to declining ratings. Since then, the series has been televised by CBS from 1979 to 1989, then on ABC from 1989 to 1995, then CBS again from 1995 until 2011, when that network cancelled the series due to low ratings

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Helen Mirren
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Dame Helen Lydia Mirren DBE is an English actor. The Audience was written by Peter Morgan, who also wrote The Queen, Tingle, Gosford Park, Calendar Girls, The Last Station, Hitchcock, and The Hundred-Foot Journey. She played Victoria Winslow in the action-comedy films Red and Red 2, in 2003, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for Services to the Performing Arts. In 2013, Mirren was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and she was born Helen Lydia Mironoff at Queen Charlottes and Chelsea Hospital in Hammersmith, west London, the daughter of Kathleen Kitty Alexandrina Eva Matilda and Vasily Petrovich Mironoff. Her mother was English and her father was Russian, originally from Kuryanovo, Mirrens paternal grandfather, Colonel Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, was in the Imperial Russian Army and fought in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. He later became a diplomat, and was negotiating a deal in Britain when he. The former diplomat became a London cab driver to support his family and his son, Helen Mirrens father, anglicised the family name to Mirren in the 1950s and changed his name to Basil Mirren. He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II, Mirrens mother was a working-class Londoner from West Ham, East London, and was the 13th of 14 children born to a butcher whose own father had been the butcher to Queen Victoria. Mirren considers her upbringing to have been very anti-monarchist, Mirren was the second of three children, she was born three years after her older sister, Katherine, and also had a younger brother, Peter Basil. Mirren was brought up in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, aged eighteen, she auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and was accepted. By the time she was 20, she was playing Cleopatra in the NYT production of Antony and Cleopatra at the Old Vic, as a result of her work for the National Youth Theatre, Mirren was invited to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. She also appeared in four productions, directed by Braham Murray for Century Theatre at the University Theatre in Manchester, in 1970, the director/producer John Goldschmidt made a documentary film, Doing Her Own Thing, about Mirren during her time with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The film was made for ATV and shown on the ITV Network in the UK and she then rejoined the RSC, playing Lady Macbeth at Stratford in 1974 and at the Aldwych Theatre in 1975. According to Beauman, there were no repercussions for this rebuke of the RSC. Her performance earned her the London critics Plays & Players Best Actress award, beginning in November 1975, Mirren played in West End repertory with the Lyric Theatre Company as Nina in The Seagull and Ella in Ben Travers new farce The Bed Before Yesterday. In 1981, she returned to the Royal Court for the London premiere of Brian Friels Faith Healer, – Michael Coveney, Financial Times, April 1983. On 15 February 2013, at the West Ends Gielgud Theatre she began a turn as Elizabeth II in the World Premiere of Peter Morgans The Audience, the show was directed by Stephen Daldry. In April she was named best actress at the Olivier Awards for her role, a further stage breakthrough came in 1994, in an Yvonne Arnaud Theatre production bound for the West End, when Bill Bryden cast her as Natalya Petrovna in Ivan Turgenevs A Month in the Country

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Claire Trevor
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Claire Trevor was an American actress. She appeared in over 60 films, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo, and earning nominations for her roles in The High and she also received top-billing in Stagecoach. Trevor was born in the Bensonhurst area of Brooklyn, New York, the child of Noel Wemlinger, a Fifth Avenue merchant tailor. She grew up in Larchmont, New York, for many years, her year of birth was misreported as 1909, a rare instance of an actress actually being younger than her given age, which is why her age at death was initially given as 91 and not 90. She was of German, Irish and French descent, according to her biography on the website of Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Trevors acting career spanned more than seven decades and included successes in stage, radio, television and film. Often played the blonde, and every conceivable type of bad girl role. After completing high school, Trevor began her career with six months of art classes at Columbia University and she made her stage debut in the summer of 1929 with a repertory company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She subsequently returned to New York where she appeared in a number of Brooklyn-filmed Vitaphone short films, by 1932 she was starring on Broadway as the female lead in Whistling in the Dark. Her first credited role was in the 1933 film Life in the Raw, with her feature film debut coming that same year in Jimmy. From 1933–38, Trevor starred in 29 films, often having either the role or the role of heroine. In 1937, she was the lead actress in Dead End, playing opposite Humphrey Bogart. From 1937–40, she appeared with Edward G. Robinson in the radio series Big Town. In the early 1940s, she also was a regular on The Old Gold Don Ameche Show on the NBC Red radio network, by 1939, she was well established as a solid leading lady. Some of her most memorable performances during this period were opposite John Wayne, including the classic 1939 western Stagecoach and she starred opposite Wayne again in Allegheny Uprising that same year, and yet again in 1940 in Dark Command. Over a decade later, she would again co-star with Wayne, gaining her third and final Oscar nomination for The High and the Mighty. Key Largo, the year, gave Trevor the role of Gaye Dawn. In 1957 she won an Emmy for her role in the Producers Showcase episode entitled Dodsworth, Trevor moved into supporting roles in the 1950s, with her appearances becoming increasingly rare after the mid-1960s. She returned for one final film, as Charlotte, the mother of Sally Fields character

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Producers' Showcase
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Producers Showcase is an American anthology television series that was telecast live during the 1950s in compatible color by NBC. With top talent, the 90-minute episodes, covering a variety of genres. The final episode, the last of 37, was broadcast May 27,1957, Showcase Productions, Inc. packaged and produced the series, which received seven Emmy Awards, including the 1956 award for Best Dramatic Series. In 1953, stage producer Leland Hayward had the idea to create a 90-minute TV series, when illness forced Hayward to withdraw from the project, NBC partnered with Showcase Productions, an independent production company created by Henry and Saul Jaffe to produce the series. Producers Showcase went on the air October 18,1954, the ambitious series presented a total of 37 live color programs, which included original musicals or plays, restaging of Broadway productions, great concert artists, and tribute programs. Producers Showcase presented the first international show with live remote locations, Producers Showcase has undoubtedly been a tremendous prestige presentation by the network with elaborate and worthy cultural productions, The New York Times published in 1957, the series final year. Producers Showcase received seven Emmy Awards, including the 1956 award for Best Dramatic Series, director Otto Preminger was invited to produce and direct Tonight at 8,30, a trio of one-act plays by Noël Coward, for the series premiere. The cast included Ginger Rogers, Trevor Howard, Gig Young, Ilka Chase, Preminger had no experience in television, but he welcomed the opportunity to work in the medium. From the beginning, the director obviously was in trouble and he believed a television production was no different from a film and lit the sets and placed the cameras accordingly. He failed to understand that during the live broadcast, he would be working with a monitor. Rogers in particular was nervous about her performance, and Preminger spent an amount of time with her. Supporting player Larkin Ford later recalled he felt Preminger had no sense of Cowards work or how it should be played, as the production entered its third week of rehearsals, a complete run-through still had not been accomplished. Three days prior to the broadcast, executive producer Fred Coe decided to take action and he privately fired Preminger and then simply told the cast and crew, Mr. Preminger will not be with us. I will be with you through the presentation, although they felt sorry a man of Premingers stature had been dismissed for incompetence, they were relieved he was gone. When the show aired, Preminger introduced each act in a filmed segment and it proved to be his first and last television venture. One of the most memorable productions of the first season was telecast on March 7,1955, a 1960 NBC revival of the production, first broadcast as a Christmas season special, was videotaped and later released on home video. By the time the 1960 version was made, the children had outgrown their roles and had to be replaced and this production also marked the first time that any version of Peter Pan had been performed on television. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made their debuts in a production of The Petrified Forest that also starred Henry Fonda, Jack Warden

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Mary Martin
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Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress, singer, and Broadway star. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles over her career, including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and she was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. She was the mother of actor Larry Hagman, Martin was born in Weatherford, Texas. Her life as a child, as she describes it in her autobiography My Heart Belongs, was secure and she had close relationships with both her mother and father, as well as her siblings. Her autobiography details how the young actress had an ear for recreating musical sounds. Martins father, Preston Martin, was a lawyer, and her mother, although the doctors told Juanita that she would risk her life if she attempted to have another baby, she was determined to have a boy. Instead, she had Mary, who became quite a tomboy and her family had a barn and orchard that kept her entertained. She played with her elder sister Geraldine, climbing trees and riding ponies and he was tall, good-looking, silver-haired, with the kindest brown eyes. Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look, Martin, who said I’d never understand the law, began singing outside the courtroom where her father worked every Saturday night at a bandstand. She sang in a trio with her sister and Marion Swofford, even in those days without microphones, my high piping voice carried all over the square. I have always thought that I inherited my carrying voice from my father and she remembered having a photographic memory as a child, making it easy to memorize songs, as well as get her through school tests. She got her first taste of singing solo at a fire hall, sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But thats the way I was made, I truly dont think I could help it, Martins craft was developed by seeing movies and becoming a mimic. She would win prizes for looking, acting and dancing like Ruby Keeler, never, never, never can I say I had a frustrating childhood. Mother used to say she never had such a happy child—that I awakened each morning with a smile. I dont remember that, but I do remember that I never wanted to go to bed, to go to sleep, during high school, Martin dated Benjamin Hagman, before she was packed off to finishing school at Ward–Belmont in Nashville, Tennessee. During that time, she enjoyed imitating Fanny Brice at singing gigs and she was homesick for Weatherford, her family, and Hagman. During a visit, Mary and Benjamin persuaded Marys mother to them to marry

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Peter Pan
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Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. In addition to two works by Barrie, the character has been featured in a variety of media and merchandise. These include a 1953 animated film, a 2003 dramatic/live-action film, a TV series and many other works. J. M. Barrie first used Peter Pan as a character in a section of The Little White Bird, an adult novel where he appears as a seven-day-old baby in the chapter entitled Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. He returned to the character of Peter Pan as the centre of his play entitled Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldnt Grow Up. Barrie later adapted and expanded the story line as a novel, published in 1911 as Peter. Barrie never described Peters appearance in detail, even in his novel, leaving it to the imagination of the reader, in the play, Peters outfit is made of autumn leaves and cobwebs. His name and playing the flute or pipes suggest the mythological character Pan, Barrie mentions in Peter and Wendy that Peter Pan still had all his first teeth. He describes him as a boy with a beautiful smile, clad in skeleton leaves. Traditionally, the character has been played on stage by an adult woman. In the original productions in the UK, Peter Pans costume was a tunic and dark green tights. This costume is exhibited in Barries Birthplace, the similar costume worn by Pauline Chase is displayed in the Museum of London. Early editions of adaptations of the story also depict a red costume but a green costume becomes more usual from the 1920s, and more so later after the release of Disneys animated movie. In the Disney films, Peter wears an outfit consists of a short-sleeved green tunic and tights apparently made of cloth. He has pointed ears, brown eyes and his hair is red. In Hook, the character is played as an adult by Robin Williams, with eyes and dark brown hair, in flashbacks to him in his youth. In this film his ears appear pointed only when he is Peter Pan and his Pan attire resembles the Disney outfit. In the live-action 2003 Peter Pan film, he is portrayed by Jeremy Sumpter and his outfit is made of leaves and vines

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Julie Harris (actress)
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Julia Ann Julie Harris was an American stage, screen, and television actress. A 10-time Tony Award nominee and five-time winner, she won for I Am a Camera, The Lark, Forty Carats, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, and The Belle of Amherst. She also won three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the 1952 film The Member of the Wedding. She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979, received the National Medal of Arts in 1994, julia Ann Harris was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the daughter of Elsie L. a nurse, and William Pickett Harris, an investment banker. She graduated from Grosse Pointe Country Day School, which merged with two others to form the University Liggett School. In New York City, she attended The Hewitt School, in 1952, Harris won her first Best Actress Tony for originating the role of insouciant Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera, the stage version of Christopher Isherwoods Goodbye to Berlin. Harris repeated her role in the film version of I Am a Camera. Of particular note is her Tony-winning performance in The Belle of Amherst and she received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording for the audio recording of the play. She first performed the play in 1976 and subsequently appeared in solo shows. In 1983, Harris also became a member of The Mirror Theater Ltds Mirror Repertory Company. Julie Harris became a mentor to the company, having urged Founding Artistic Director Sabra Jones to create the company from 1976 forward, when Jones married John Strasberg. Harris and Jones met at a performance of The Belle of Amherst, along with Chita Rivera, Harris holds the record for the most individual Tony Award nominations, with 10 nominations. She held the record for most competitive Tony wins until Angela Lansbury tied her in 2009, audra McDonald has since passed them both, with six acting Tony Award wins. In 1966, Harris won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre, Harris played the ethereal Eleanor Lance in The Haunting, director Robert Wises screen adaptation of a novel by Shirley Jackson, a classic film of the horror genre. She reprised her Tony-winning role as Mary Todd Lincoln in The Last of Mrs. Lincoln in the film version, another noteworthy film appearance was the World War II drama The Hiding Place. She also appeared in films as East of Eden, with James Dean, Requiem for a Heavyweight, with Paul Newman in the private-detective film Harper. For her television work, Harris had won three Emmy Awards and had been nominated 11 times, one of her most famous television roles was as Queen Victoria, in the 1961 Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Laurence Housmans Victoria Regina, for which she won an Emmy. Earlier, also for the Hallmark Hall of Fame, she starred as Nora Helmer opposite Christopher Plummer in A Dolls House, a 90-minute television adaptation of Ibsens play

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Kim Stanley
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Kim Stanley was an American actress, primarily in television and theatre, but with occasional film performances. She began her career in theatre, and subsequently attended the Actors Studio in New York City. She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her role in The Chase, Stanley was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her roles in A Touch of the Poet and A Far Country. In the 1950s, Stanley was a performer in television. She received an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her performance as Big Mama in an adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1985. That same year, Kim Stanley was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame and her father was of Irish or Scottish descent, born and raised in Texas, where he met her mother. She had three brothers, and a half-sister, Carol Ann Reid and she was a drama major at the University of New Mexico and later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse and adopted her maternal grandmothers surname as her stage name. Stanley was a successful Broadway actress with only a few film roles and she was singled out by The New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson for her early work. She eventually attended the Actors Studio, studying under Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg and she received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her performance as Anna Reeves in The Chase, and starred in such Broadway hits as Picnic, playing Millie Owens and Bus Stop, playing Cherie. Stanley also portrayed Maggie The Cat in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in the original London production of the play, Stanley was a leading lady of live television drama, which flourished in New York City during the 1950s. She was in the London performance of Masha in an Actors Studio production of Anton Chekhovs play The Three Sisters Her first film was The Goddess and she also played Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff. Stanley was the narrator in the drama film To Kill a Mockingbird. As the narrator, she represents the character Jean Louise Finch as an adult, mary Badham portrays Scout as a child in the film. Stanley did not act during her years, preferring the role of teacher, in New York City, Los Angeles, California, and later Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was inducted into the New Mexico Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2012, Stanley was married four times – to Bruce Hall, Curt Conway, Alfred Ryder and Joseph Siegel – with all four marriages ending in divorce. She had three children, one by Conway, one by Brooks Clift while she was married to Conway, during her marriage to Ryder, Stanley converted to Judaism. Stanley died of cancer at a Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was survived by her brother Justin, her three children, and several nephews and nieces, a biography, Female Brando, the Legend of Kim Stanley, by Jon Krampner, was published by Back Stage Books, a division of Watson-Guptill

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Ben Casey
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Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols ♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞ on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, Man, woman, birth, death. Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character. The series starred Vince Edwards as medical doctor Ben Casey, a young, intense and his mentor was Doctor David Zorba, played by Sam Jaffe. At the beginning of Season 5, Jaffe left the show and Franchot Tone replaced Zorba as new Chief of Neurosurgery, warner served as the programs original technical advisor in 1961. He worked closely with the actors, showing them how to handle medical instruments, Ben Casey had several directors including Irvin Kershner and Sydney Pollack. Its theme song was written by David Raksin, a version performed by pianist Valjean was a Top 40 hit in the United States, filmed at the Desilu Studios, the series was produced by Bing Crosby Productions. According to IMDb, Vince Edwards appeared on the TV series Breaking Point as Ben Casey, the episode was Solo for B-Flat Clarinet and debuted 16 September 1963. Both Ben Casey and Breaking Point were produced by Bing Crosby Productions, members of Breaking Point also had guest roles on Ben Casey. Original Run NOTE, The most frequent time slot for the series is in bold text, in the 1962-1963 season, it swamped Loretta Youngs return to weekly television in her family sitcom The New Loretta Young Show on CBS. In 1963, it moved to Wednesdays as the program for ABCs drama about college life. Daytime repeats of the series aired on ABCs weekday schedule from 1965 through 1967. Nielsen Ratings NOTE, The highest average rating for the series is in bold text, there was both a comic strip and a comic book based on the television series. The strip was developed and written by Jerry Capp and drawn by Neal Adams, the daily strip began on November 26,1962 and the Sunday strip debuted on September 20,1964. Both ended on July 31,1966, the daily strip was reprinted in the Menomonee Falls Gazette. The comic book was published by Dell Comics for 10 issues from 1962 to 1964, all had photocovers, except for the final issue which was drawn by John Tartaglione. From 1962 through 1963, the paperback publisher Lancer Books also issued four original novels based on the series, the covers of the books featured photographs of Edwards as Casey or, in the case of the last novel, a drawing of a doctor with Edwards appearance. In 1988, the made-for-TV-movie The Return of Ben Casey, with Vince Edwards reprising his role as Casey, harry Landers was the only other original cast member to reprise his role

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Shelley Winters
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Shelley Winters was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television, her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006. Winters won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue and she also appeared in such films as The Big Knife, A Double Life, Lolita, The Night of the Hunter, Alfie, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, and Petes Dragon. Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Rose, a singer with the Muny, and Jonas Schrift and her parents were Jewish, her father emigrated from Austria, and her mother was born in St. Louis to Austrian immigrants. Her family moved to Brooklyn, New York when she was three years old and her sister Blanche Schrift later married George Boroff, who ran the Circle Theatre in Los Angeles. Winters studied at the New School in New York City, as the New York Times obituary noted, A major movie presence for more than five decades, Shelley Winters turned herself into a widely respected actress who won two Oscars. Winters originally broke into Hollywood films as a Blonde Bombshell type, but quickly tired of the roles limitations. She claims to have washed off her makeup to audition for the role of Alice Tripp, the girl, in A Place in the Sun, directed by George Stevens. As the Associated Press reported, the public was unaware of how serious a craftswoman Winters was. Although she was in demand as an actress, Winters continued to study her craft. She attended Charles Laughtons Shakespeare classes and worked at the Actors Studio and she studied in the Hollywood Studio Club, and in the late 1940s, she shared an apartment with another newcomer, Marilyn Monroe. Her first movie was What a Woman, working in films through the 1940s, Winters first achieved stardom with her breakout performance as the victim of insane actor Ronald Colman in George Cukors A Double Life, in 1947. She quickly ascended in Hollywood with leading roles in The Great Gatsby with Alan Ladd and she also returned to the stage on various occasions during this time, including a Broadway run in A Hatful of Rain, in 1955–1956, opposite future husband Anthony Franciosa. She won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for The Diary of Anne Frank in 1960 and she donated her Oscar for The Diary of Anne Frank to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. In The Poseidon Adventure, she was the ill-fated Belle Rosen and she returned to the stage during the 1960s and 1970s, most notably in Tennessee Williams Night of the Iguana. She appeared in cult films as 1968s Wild in the Streets. She also starred in the 1970 Broadway musical Minnies Boys as Minnie Marx, the mother of Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, as the Associated Press reported, During her 50 years as a widely known personality, Winters was rarely out of the news. Her stormy marriages, her romances with famous stars, her forays into politics and she delighted in giving provocative interviews and seemed to have an opinion on everything. That led to a career as a writer

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Geraldine Page
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Geraldine Sue Page was an American film, television and stage actress. Page made her Broadway debut in 1953 and went on to receive Tony Award nominations for Sweet Bird of Youth, Absurd Person Singular, Agnes of God and she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1983. Page was born in Kirksville, Missouri and she was the daughter of Edna Pearl and Leon Elwin Page, who worked at Andrew Taylor Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery. He was an author whose works included Practical Anatomy, Osteopathic Fundamentals and she had a younger brother, Frederick. After graduating from Chicagos Englewood Technical Prep Academy in Chicago, Illinois, she attended the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, Page was a trained method actor and worked closely with Lee Strasberg. She began appearing in theatre at age 17. Her appearance as Alma in the 1952 production of Summer and Smoke, written by Tennessee Williams and her work continued on Broadway as the spinster in the 1954–1955 production of The Rainmaker, written by N. She earned critical accolades for her performance in the 1959 production of Williamss Sweet Bird of Youth opposite Paul Newman. She originated the role of a larger-than-life, addicted, sexually voracious Hollywood legend trying to extinguish her fears about her career with a hustler named Chance Wayne. For her performance, Page received her first nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and she and Newman later starred in the film adaptation of the same name and Page earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film. In 1964, she starred in a Broadway revival of Anton Chekhovs Three Sisters playing eldest sister Olga to Kim Stanleys Masha with Shelley Winters as the interloper Natasha, both Shirley Knight and Sandy Dennis played the youngest sister Irina at different stages in this production. It was directed by Lee Strasberg, in 1967, Page starred in Peter Shaffers Black Comedy/White Lies, a production which also included Michael Crawford and Lynn Redgrave who were making their Broadway debuts. Page received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1975 production of Alan Ayckbourns Absurd Person Singular with Sandy Dennis and Richard Kiley. Page also starred as Zelda Fitzgerald in the last major Broadway production of a Williams play, Clothes for a Summer Hotel, in 1973, she played Mary Todd Lincoln opposite Maya Angelou in the Broadway production of the two-character play Look Away, written by Jerome Kilty. In 1983, Page was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame and this became the Mirror Theater Ltd with its repertory program the Mirror Repertory, and Geraldine accepted the role of Founding Artist in Residence. Vivat Regina. by Robert Bolt, Clarence by Booth Tarkington and she also appeared in The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham. It was during production that she received the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Trip to Bountiful. She received the award from F. Murray Abraham, who, after winning his Oscar for Amadeus, after winning an Academy Award in 1986, Page returned to Broadway in a revival of Noël Cowards Blithe Spirit as Madame Arcati

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ABC Stage 67
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ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama, future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar. Ultimately, ABCs effort to revive the popular anthology series format from the 1950s failed, scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteaus one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, the Love Song of Barney Kempinski, a play by Murray Schisgal starring Alan Arkin, Lee Grant, John Gielgud, and Alan King. Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn, a play by Stanley Mann based on a story by John Le Carré starring James Mason and Hugh Griffith. Olympus 7-0000, a comedy by Richard Adler and featuring Larry Blyden, Donald OConnor. A coach attempts to organize a football team. The Confession, a drama starring Brandon deWilde, Dana Elcar, Hugh Franklin, Katharine Houghton, Arthur Kennedy, the Canterville Ghost, an original musical version of the Oscar Wilde tale with a score by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. It starred Michael Redgrave, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Peter Noone, the People Trap, a teleplay by Earl Hamner Jr. Evening Primrose, an original musical about a poet who opts to drop out of society and live in a department store. It was directed by Paul Bogart and starred Anthony Perkins, Charmian Carr, the program was taped after regular business hours at the now-defunct Stern Brothers department store in Manhattan. A studio recording with Neil Patrick Harris in the Perkins role was released in 2001 and this episode is available for viewing at the Museum of Television & Radio branches in New York City and Beverly Hills. This episode has been released on DVD, the Legend of Marilyn Monroe, a documentary about the film star narrated by John Huston. The episode has been released on DVD, on the Flip Side, an original rock musical, with songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, about a teen idol has-been portrayed by Ricky Nelson. An original soundtrack album was released by Decca Records, a Christmas Memory, an adaptation of Truman Capotes semi-autobiographical novella, won a Peabody Award and Emmy Awards for Capote and Eleanor Perrys teleplay and Geraldine Pages leading performance. C’est La Vie, a review of Broadway and film songs. Hosted by Maurice Chevalier and Diahann Carroll, the Light Fantastic, a lighthearted look at the influence of dance on society with Lauren Bacall and John Forsythe. Rodgers and Hart Today, a salute to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart hosted by Petula Clark and Bobby Darin, guests included the Mamas & the Papas, the Supremes, Count Basie and his Orchestra, and Peter Gennaro and his dancers. The show was unique in that it included not one word of dialogue, the American Boy was a trio of films about adolescent boys living in the city, the suburbs, and the country

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The Thanksgiving Visitor
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The Thanksgiving Visitor is a short story by Truman Capote originally published in the November 1967 issue of McCalls magazine, and later published as a book by Random House, Inc. in 1968. The story takes the form of a tale about a boy. The story has a moral lesson related to revenge. It is a sequel to Capotes A Christmas Memory, the Thanksgiving Visitor was inspired by Truman Capotes childhood growing up in Alabama. One of the characters, Miss Sook Faulk is based directly on Trumans older cousin, Nanny Rumbley Faulk. The story is narrated by nine-year-old Buddy, whose cousin is his best friend. Buddy gets stopped on the way to every day by local bully Odd Henderson, who pins him to the ground and rubs burrs into Buddys head because hes a sissy. To stop this problem, his cousin, Miss Sook, invites Odd to her big Thanksgiving party, during the party, when Buddy is sulking in his bathroom cupboard, he spots Odd stealing a precious cameo. When Odd leaves the bathroom, Buddy leaves and claims in front of the party that Odd has stolen the cameo. Miss Sook goes to check, and she claims that the cameo is in place, but then Odd admits to stealing the cameo, lays it on a table, and walks out. Buddy then runs out and sulks in the barn, until the afternoon, an aunt of Truman Capotes was hurt by the tale because she felt Capote had invented a troubled childhood. She said I just cant believe what Truman has made us out to be and we were a very decent, well-off family, and hes made it to be quite another story. The story was adapted for television and filmed in Alabama with Capote and many of his friends, the 1967 television production of The Thanksgiving Visitor earned Geraldine Page a second Emmy Award

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Glenda Jackson
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Glenda May Jackson, CBE is a British actress and former Labour Party politician. As a professional actress from the late 1950s, she spent four years as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964, during her film career, she won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for Women in Love and A Touch of Class. Other award-winning performances include Alex in the film Sunday Bloody Sunday and she first became a Member of Parliament in 1992, as Member for Hampstead and Highgate. Early in the government of Tony Blair she served as a Junior Transport minister from 1997 to 1999, after constituency boundary changes, from 2010 until her retirement from politics in 2015, she represented Hampstead and Kilburn. At the 2010 general election, her majority of 42 votes was one of the closest results of the entire election and she announced in 2011 that she would stand down as an MP at the 2015 general election. Jackson was born in Birkenhead on the Wirral, Cheshire, where her father was a builder, Jackson was educated at the West Kirby County Grammar School for Girls, and performed at the Townswomens Guild drama group during her teens. She worked for two years in a branch of the Boots the Chemist chain before taking up a scholarship in 1954 to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Jackson made her stage debut in Terence Rattigans Separate Tables in 1957 while at RADA. Her film debut was a bit part in This Sporting Life, the production ran on Broadway in 1965 and in Paris and Jackson also appeared as Ophelia in Peter Halls production of Hamlet in the same year. Critic Penelope Gilliatt thought Jackson was the only Ophelia she had seen who was ready to play the Prince himself. The RSCs staging at the Aldwych Theatre of US, a protest play against the Vietnam War, also featured Jackson, later that year, she starred in the psychological drama Negatives, which was not a huge financial success, but won her more good reviews. Jacksons starring role in Ken Russells film of Women in Love led to her winning her first Academy Award for Best Actress, in order to play Queen Elizabeth I in the BBCs serial Elizabeth R, Jackson had her head shaved. After the series was shown on PBS in the US, Jackson received two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performance and she also portrayed Queen Elizabeth in the film Mary, Queen of Scots, and gained a BAFTA for her role in John Schlesingers Sunday Bloody Sunday. Filmmaker Melvin Frank saw her comedic potential on the Morecambe and Wise Show and she gained a second Academy Award for Best Actress for A Touch of Class. She continued to work in the theatre, and returned to the RSC to play the role in Ibsens Hedda Gabler. A later film version directed by Nunn was released as Hedda for which Jackson was nominated for an Oscar, in 1978, she scored box office success in the United States in the romantic comedy House Calls, which co-starred Walter Matthau. Jackson and Matthau teamed again in the comedy Hopscotch, which was a mild success, John Beaufort for The Christian Science Monitor wrote, Bravura is the inevitable word for Miss Jacksons display of feminine wiles and brilliant technique. Herbert Wise directed a British television version of ONeills drama which was first broadcast in the US as part of PBSs American Playhouse in January 1988

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Elizabeth I of England
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Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, who was executed two and a half years after Elizabeths birth. Annes marriage to Henry VIII was annulled, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate, edwards will was set aside and Mary became queen, deposing Lady Jane Grey. During Marys reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels, in 1558, Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister to the throne and set out to rule by good counsel. She depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers, led by William Cecil, one of her first actions as queen was the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement was to evolve into the Church of England and it was expected that Elizabeth would marry and produce an heir to continue the Tudor line. She never did, despite numerous courtships, as she grew older, Elizabeth became famous for her virginity. A cult grew around her which was celebrated in the portraits, pageants, in government, Elizabeth was more moderate than her father and half-siblings had been. One of her mottoes was video et taceo, in religion, she was relatively tolerant and avoided systematic persecution. Elizabeth was cautious in foreign affairs, manoeuvring between the powers of France and Spain. She only half-heartedly supported a number of ineffective, poorly resourced military campaigns in the Netherlands, France, by the mid-1580s, England could no longer avoid war with Spain. Englands defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 associated Elizabeth with one of the greatest military victories in English history, Elizabeths reign is known as the Elizabethan era. Some historians depict Elizabeth as a short-tempered, sometimes indecisive ruler, towards the end of her reign, a series of economic and military problems weakened her popularity. Such was the case with Elizabeths rival, Mary, Queen of Scots, after the short reigns of Elizabeths half-siblings, her 44 years on the throne provided welcome stability for the kingdom and helped forge a sense of national identity. Elizabeth was born at Greenwich Palace and was named after both her grandmothers, Elizabeth of York and Elizabeth Howard and she was the second child of Henry VIII of England born in wedlock to survive infancy. Her mother was Henrys second wife, Anne Boleyn, at birth, Elizabeth was the heir presumptive to the throne of England. She was baptised on 10 September, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the Marquess of Exeter, the Duchess of Norfolk, Elizabeth was two years and eight months old when her mother was beheaded on 19 May 1536, four months after Catherine of Aragons death from natural causes. Elizabeth was declared illegitimate and deprived of her place in the royal succession, eleven days after Anne Boleyns execution, Henry married Jane Seymour, who died shortly after the birth of their son, Prince Edward, in 1537

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Elizabeth R
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Elizabeth R is a BBC television drama serial of six 85-minute plays starring Glenda Jackson in the title role. It was first broadcast on BBC2 from February to March 1971, through the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia, the Lions Cub - The fragile succession heralds dangerous times for the young Princess Elizabeth. Will the Princess Elizabeth survive her emotionally unstable half-sisters reign, the Marriage Game - The new Queen Elizabeth I is 25 years old - and unmarried. Her council—particularly the man she trusts most, Sir William Cecil—urges her to marry quickly, only Lord Robert Dudley, at first her Master of the Horse, and eventually the Earl of Leicester, seems to interest the queen. When Dudleys wife dies under mysterious circumstances, Elizabeth must decide if she wants to marry. Shadow in the Sun - Elizabeth meets her most eligible suitor yet, François, Duke of Alençon, a marriage will cement Frances sought-for alliance with England. Both Sir William Cecil and Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, despite the Puritans rousing opposition in the country, Elizabeth seems taken with the witty and flower-tongued François. As her duties as queen clash with her feelings as a woman, in the end, her good friend and councillor Sussex helps Elizabeth make her painfully honest, final decision. Elizabeth does not want to marry - ever, horrible Conspiracies - As long as the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots lives, she is the focus of plotters and revolutionaries. Despite a harsh clampdown against conspiring Roman Catholics, Mary, inspires an earnest attempt to overthrow Elizabeth, is the execution of Mary the only way Elizabeth will remain on the throne. Sir Francis Walsingham definitely thinks so, and will use any means to convince Elizabeth to eliminate Mary, but Elizabeth fears Marys death will condemn her in the eyes of God. In the end, Elizabeth makes a final choice, the Enterprise of England - Whispers of war fill the air in Elizabeths court and in Spain. The infirm King Philip II of Spain is eager to avenge the death of Mary, Philip urges an unprepared fleet, commanded by the incompetent Duke of Medina Sidonia, to sail on England. Even as Elizabeth rebukes the hawks in her council, with hopes of peace and her fate and the future of the country now lie in the hands of Drake, and the Navy. England triumphs, but Elizabeth pays a heavy price with the death of her beloved Robert Dudley. Sweet Englands Pride - He is the sun in splendour, he is all our pride, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, is the peoples champion. He and Charles Howard were successful in capturing and sacking the Spanish seaport of Cadiz, the queen tells her secretary Robert Cecil, son of William Cecil, I am not Gloriana without the magic of his mirror. After his unsuccessful uprising against the queen in London, he is executed, the old queen shines in her final address to Parliament, but dies soon afterward

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Cloris Leachman
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Cloris Leachman is an American actress of stage, film, and television. In a career spanning seven decades she has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards, one Daytime Emmy Award. As Miss Chicago, Leachman competed in the 20th Miss America pageant, in the 2000s, Leachman had a recurring role as grandma Ida on the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, and appeared as a roaster in the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget in 2008. She was a contestant on the season of the ABC reality competition series Dancing with the Stars in 2008. She was 82 at the time and is the oldest contestant to have danced on the series, from 2010-14, she starred as Maw Maw on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope. Leachman was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the eldest of three sisters and she attended Theodore Roosevelt High School. Her parents were Berkeley Claiborne Buck Leachman, who worked at the family-owned Leachman Lumber Company, the youngest sister, Mary, was not in show business. Middle sister Claiborne Cary was an actress and singer and her maternal grandmother was of Bohemian descent. As a teenager, Leachman appeared in plays by local youth on weekends at Drake University in Des Moines and she began appearing on television and in films shortly after competing in Miss America in 1946. After winning a scholarship in the Miss America pageant, Leachman studied acting under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City and she was cast as a replacement for the role of Nellie Forbush during the original run of Rodgers and Hammersteins South Pacific. Leachman appeared in live television broadcasts in the 1950s, including such programs as Suspense. She made her film debut as an extra in Carnegie Hall. Leachman was several months pregnant during the filming, and appears in one scene running down a darkened highway wearing only a trench coat, a year later, she appeared opposite Paul Newman and Lee Marvin in The Rack. She appeared with Newman again in a role as a prostitute in Butch Cassidy. She continued to work mainly in television, with appearances in Rawhide, during this period, Leachman appeared opposite John Forsythe on the popular anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents in an episode titled Premonition. She later appeared as Ruth Martin, Timmy Martins adoptive mother, jon Provost, who played Timmy, said, Cloris did not feel particularly challenged by the role. Basically, when she realized that all shed be doing was baking cookies and she was replaced by June Lockhart in 1958. That same year, she appeared in an episode of One Step Beyond titled The Dark Room, in 1960, she played Marilyn Parker, the roommate of Janice Rules character, Elena Nardos, in the Checkmate episode The Mask of Vengeance

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Cicely Tyson
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Cicely Tyson is an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress for her performance as Rebecca Morgan in Sounder, for this role she also won the NSFC Best Actress and NBR Best Actress Awards. She starred in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, for which she won two Emmy Awards and was nominated for a BAFTA Award, during her career she has been nominated for twelve Primetime Emmy Awards, winning three. In 2011, she appeared in the film The Help, for which she received awards for her work as Constantine from the BFCA and SAG Awards. She starred on Broadway in The Trip to Bountiful as Carrie Watts, for which she won the Tony Award, Outer Critics Award and she previously received a Drama Desk Award in 1962 for her Off-Broadway performance in Moon on a Rainbow Shawl. On November 16,2016, it was announced that Tyson would be one of 21 new recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian honor. Tyson was born and raised in Harlem, the daughter of Frederica Tyson, a domestic, and William Augustine Tyson, who worked as a carpenter, painter and her parents were immigrants from Nevis in the West Indies. Her father arrived in New York City at age 21 and was processed at Ellis Island on August 4,1919, Tyson was discovered by a photographer for Ebony magazine and became a popular fashion model. Her first acting role was on the NBC series Frontiers of Faith in 1951, in 1961, Tyson appeared in the original cast of French playwright Jean Genets The Blacks, the longest running off-Broadway non-musical of the decade, running for 1,408 performances. On March 25,1963, Tyson appeared on the game show To Tell The Truth as a contestant for Shirley Abicair. She appeared with Sammy Davis, Jr. in the film A Man Called Adam, Tyson had a featured role in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, and appeared in a segment of Roots. In 1972, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the critically acclaimed Sounder, in 1974, she won two Emmy Awards for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. In 1988 she received a Candace Award for Distinguished Service from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, in 1991 she appeared in Fried Green Tomatoes as Sipsey. C. Civil rights and criminal defense lawyer Dovey Johnson Roundtree, in 2005, Tyson co-starred in Because of Winn-Dixie and Diary of a Mad Black Woman. In 2011, Tyson appeared in her first music video in Willow Smiths 21st Century Girl and that same year she played Constantine Jefferson in the critically-acclaimed period drama The Help. At the 67th Tony Awards on June 9,2013, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Miss Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful. She also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play, in 2013, Tyson had a supporting role in the horror film The Haunting in Connecticut 2, Ghosts of Georgia. Tyson has been married once, to jazz trumpeter Miles Davis on November 26,1981

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Katharine Hepburn
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Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress. Known for her independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from comedy to literary drama. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema, raised in Connecticut by wealthy, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while studying at Bryn Mawr College. After four years in the theatre, favorable reviews of her work on Broadway brought her to the attention of Hollywood. Hepburn masterminded her own comeback, buying out her contract with RKO Radio Pictures and acquiring the rights to The Philadelphia Story. In the 1940s, she was contracted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where her career focused on an alliance with Spencer Tracy, the screen-partnership spanned 25 years and produced nine movies. Hepburn challenged herself in the half of her life, as she regularly appeared in Shakespearean stage productions. She found a niche playing middle-aged spinsters, such as in The African Queen, three more Oscars came for her work in Guess Whos Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, and On Golden Pond. In the 1970s, she began appearing in films, which became the focus of her career in later life. She remained active into old age, making her screen appearance in 1994 at the age of 87. After a period of inactivity and ill health, Hepburn died in 2003 at the age of 96, Hepburn famously shunned the Hollywood publicity machine and refused to conform to societys expectations of women. She was outspoken, assertive, athletic, and wore trousers before it was fashionable for women to do so and she married once, as a young woman, but thereafter lived independently. A 26-year affair with her co-star Spencer Tracy was hidden from the public, Hepburn was born on May 12,1907 in Hartford, Connecticut, the second of six children. Her parents were Thomas Norval Hepburn, a urologist at Hartford Hospital, and Katharine Martha Houghton, as a child, Hepburn joined her mother on several Votes For Women demonstrations. The Hepburn children were raised to exercise freedom of speech and encouraged to think and her parents were criticized by the community for their progressive views, which stimulated Hepburn to fight against barriers she encountered. Hepburn said she realized from an age that she was the product of two very remarkable parents, and credited her enormously lucky upbringing with providing the foundation for her success. She remained close to her throughout her life

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Joanne Woodward
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Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an American actress, producer, activist, and philanthropist. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-winning role in The Three Faces of Eve. Woodward was born on February 27,1930, in Thomasville, Georgia, daughter of Elinor and Wade Woodward and her middle names, Gignilliat Trimmier, are of Huguenot origin. She was influenced to become an actress by her mothers love of movies and her mother named her after Joan Crawford, using the Southern pronunciation of the name – Joanne. She eventually worked with Olivier in 1977, in a production of Come Back. During rehearsals, she mentioned this incident to him, and he told her that he remembered her doing it, Woodward lived in Thomasville until she was in the second grade, when her family relocated to Marietta, Georgia, where she attended Marietta High School. She remains a booster of Marietta High and of that citys Strand Theater and they moved once again when she was a junior in high school, after her parents divorced. She graduated from Greenville High School in Greenville, South Carolina in 1947, Woodward won many beauty contests as a teenager. She appeared in productions at Greenville High and in Greenvilles Little Theatre, playing Laura Wingfield in their staging of The Glass Menagerie. She returned to Greenville in 1976, to play Amanda Wingfield in another Little Theatre production of The Glass Menagerie and she had also returned in 1955 for the premiére of her debut movie, Count Three And Pray, at the Paris Theatre on North Main Street. Woodward majored in drama at Louisiana State University, where she was an initiate of Chi Omega sorority, woodwards first film was a post-Civil War Western, Count Three and Pray, in 1955. She continued to move between Hollywood and Broadway, eventually understudying in the New York production of Picnic, which featured her future husband Paul Newman, the two were married in 1958, after their work together in the film The Long, Hot Summer. By that time, Woodward had starred in The Three Faces of Eve and she appeared with husband Paul Newman in ten feature films, The Long, Hot Summer Rally Round the Flag, Boys. From the Terrace Paris Blues A New Kind of Love Winning WUSA The Drowning Pool Harry & Son — Mr. and she appeared in the television films Sybil, opposite Sally Field, and Crisis at Central High. She was the narrator for Martin Scorseses screen version of The Age of Innocence, Woodward was a co-producer and starred in a 1993 broadcast of the play Blind Spot, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie. In 1995, Woodward directed off-broadway revivals of Clifford Odets Golden Boy, Woodward served as the artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse from 2001 to 2005. She recorded a reading of singer John Mellencamps song The Real Life for his box set On the Rural Route 7609, in 2011, she narrated the Scholastic/Weston Woods film All the World. Woodward was reported to have engaged to author Gore Vidal prior to marrying Paul Newman

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Do You Remember Love (film)
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Do You Remember Love is a 1985 television film, starring Joanne Woodward and Richard Kiley. It won three Emmy Awards, the Humanitas Prize, the Writers Guild of America Award, and a Peabody Award, Barbara Wyatt-Hollis wins the hearts of her academic colleagues with her quick wit and irresistible but definitely quirky personality. Though popular with her students, she not have gotten tenure if she were not a truly distinguished poet. Barbara has won prizes and now has been nominated for the Longfellow Award. Barbara is lovingly married to George, who runs his own machine shop, George couldnt be more proud when he learns that Barbara is a nominee for poetrys number-one award, which hes sure shell win. In the midst of the excitement, Barbaras mother, Lorraine, George suggests that Lorraine convalesce at Barbara and Georges home. It starts with Lorraine discovering that Barbaras sugar bowl is full of salt, Lorraine notices a lot of odd little things about Barbaras behavior. The main thing is that her daughter is uncharacteristically quick to anger, Lorraine asks George if he hasnt noticed the changes in Barbara, but he brushes it off. But George has indeed noticed the changes in Barbara and is most troubled by her temper, which has always had an edge, one evening she gets so angry during a squabble that she bites her husband. George talks to his campus-psychiatrist friend, who observes Barbara at a party, Barbara agrees that something may be wrong. After many tests, the specialist concludes through the process of elimination that Barbara has Alzheimers, in an effort to cope with a mind that is constantly losing things, Barbara begins to put labels, instructions, and reminders, everywhere—on bottles, doors, the telephone. George discovers a note she has been carrying up her sleeve, on it, Barbara has written George. One day, George finds a letter among Barbaras gardening tools and it is the notification that Barbara has won the Longfellow Award. It requests that Barbara accept her prize at a ceremony and, of course. Barbaras son argues that his mother shouldnt say anything at the ceremony because shell make a fool of herself, but Barbara is determined not only to go but to read the acceptance speech that she, herself, will write. On the night of the presentation, Barbara forgets some friends names. When the emcee finishes introducing Barbara, all eyes are on her, Barbara goes to the podium, but then freezes. Realizing that Barbara cannot make her speech, George goes quickly to the podium, George tells the audience that Barbara has Alzheimers disease and that he will read the words that Barbara has written

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Bette Davis
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Ruth Elizabeth Bette Davis was an American actress of film, television, and theater. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930, however, her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful. She joined Warner Bros. in 1932 and established her career with several critically acclaimed performances, in 1937, she attempted to free herself from her contract. Although she lost the legal case against the studio, it marked the beginning of the most successful period of her career. Until the late 1940s, she was one of American cinemas most celebrated leading ladies, known for her forceful, Davis gained a reputation as a perfectionist who could be highly combative and confrontational. She clashed with executives and film directors as well as many of her co-stars. Her forthright manner, idiosyncratic speech and ubiquitous cigarette contributed to a public persona, Davis was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her career went through periods of eclipse, and she admitted that her success had often been at the expense of her personal relationships. Married four times, she was widowed and three times divorced, and raised her children as a single parent. In 1999, Davis was placed second behind Katharine Hepburn on the American Film Institutes list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Bettys younger sister, Barbara Harriet Bobby, was born October 25,1909, at 55 Ward Street in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1915, Daviss parents separated and Betty and Bobby attended a Spartan boarding school called Crestalban in Lanesborough, which is located in the Berkshires. In 1921, Ruth Davis moved to New York City with her daughters, Betty changed the spelling of her name to Bette after Honoré de Balzacs La Cousine Bette. Davis attended Cushing Academy, a school in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. In 1926, she saw a production of Henrik Ibsens The Wild Duck with Blanche Yurka and Peg Entwistle, Davis later recalled for Al Cohn of Newsday, The reason I wanted to go into theater was because of an actress named Peg Entwistle. She auditioned for admission to Eva LeGalliennes Manhattan Civic Repertory, but was rejected by LeGallienne who described her attitude as insincere, upon graduating from Cushing Academy, Bette enrolled in John Murray Andersons Dramatic School. In 1929, Davis was chosen by Blanche Yurka to play Hedwig, after performing in Philadelphia, Washington and Boston, she made her Broadway debut in 1929 in Broken Dishes, and followed it with Solid South. In 1930, Davis moved to Hollywood to screen test for Universal Studios, Davis and her mother traveled by train to Hollywood and arrived on December 13,1930. She would later recount her surprise that nobody from the studio was there to meet her at the train, in fact, a studio employee had waited for her, but left because he saw nobody who looked like an actress

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Patty Duke
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Anna Marie Patty Duke was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She first became known as a teen star, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16 for her role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, a role which she had originated on Broadway. The following year she was given her own show, The Patty Duke Show and she later progressed to more mature roles such as that of Neely OHara in the film Valley of the Dolls. Over the course of her career, she received ten Emmy Award nominations, Duke also served as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1985 to 1988. Duke was diagnosed bipolar disorder in 1982, after which she devoted much of her time to advocating for. Duke was born in Elmhurst, Queens, New York, the youngest of three children of Frances Margaret, a cashier, and John Patrick Duke, a handyman and she was of Irish, and more distant German, descent. Duke, her brother Raymond, and her sister Carol experienced a difficult childhood and their father was an alcoholic, and their mother suffered from clinical depression and was prone to violence. When Duke was six, her mother forced her father to leave the family home. When Duke was eight, her care was turned over to talent managers John and Ethel Ross, the Rosses methods of managing Dukes career were often unscrupulous and exploitative. They consistently billed Duke as being two years younger than she actually was and padded her resume with false credits and they gave her alcohol and prescription drugs, took unreasonably high fees from her earnings and made sexual advances to her. In addition, the Rosses ordered Duke to change her name—Anna Marie is dead and they hoped that Patty Duke would duplicate the success of tween actress Patty McCormack. One of Dukes earlier acting roles was in the late 1950s and she also appeared in print ads and in television commercials. In 1959, at the age of 12, Duke appeared on The $64,000 Question and won $32,000, in 1962, it was revealed that the game show had been rigged, and she was called to testify before a panel of the United States Senate. Also in 1959, Duke appeared in an adaptation of Meet Me in St. Louis as Tootie Smith. Dukes first major starring role was playing Helen Keller in the Broadway play The Miracle Worker, during the run, Dukes name was elevated to above the plays name on the theatres billboard, believed to be the first time this had been done for such a young star. The play was made into a 1962 film, for which Duke received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. At 16, Duke was the youngest person at that time to have received an Academy Award in a competitive category, Duke returned to television, this time starring with Laurence Olivier and George C. Scott in a television production of The Power and the Glory. Dukes own series, The Patty Duke Show, which Sidney Sheldon created especially for her, the show also featured such high-profile guest stars as Sammy Davis, Jr. Peter Lawford, Paul Lynde and Sal Mineo

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My Sweet Charlie
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My Sweet Charlie is an American television movie directed by Lamont Johnson. The teleplay by Richard Levinson and William Link is based on the novel of the name by David Westheimer. Produced by Universal Television and broadcast by NBC on January 20,1970 and it is considered a landmark in television films. The film was made on location in Port Bolivar, Texas, set during the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie Roberts is a militant African American attorney from New York City falsely accused of murder during a demonstration in rural Texas. In 1966, Westheimer adapted his novel for a play opened at Broadways Longacre Theatre with Bonnie Bedelia. It ran for 12 previews and 31 performances, the television production was filmed on location in Port Bolivar, Texas in 1968 and was plagued by almost as many racial tensions as those depicted in the film. According to Patty Duke in her autobiography, her friendship with Freeman led to rumors of an affair, marijuana was planted in Dukes Galveston hotel room by locals, though it was quickly determined not to belong to Duke. Texas governor, John Connally, intervened with local authorities to stop harassment of the production company, bob Banner, Richard Levinson, William Link Original Music

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Captains and the Kings
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Joseph Armagh befriends a Lebanese immigrant, and both are taken under the tutelage of an American plutocrat. Young Joseph Armagh, recently of Ireland, who promised his mother to care for his younger siblings lands in Boston. His determination carries him through years of making and his gradual accumulation of wealth. Armagh takes on the power brokers. It was one of the top 10 best-sellers of 1972, as ranked by The New York Times Best Seller list, the book was adapted into an eight-part television miniseries by NBC in the 1976 broadcast season. Duke won an Emmy Award for her performance, jordan won a Golden Globe award and an Emmy nomination for his performance. Durning was nominated for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe, cinematographer Ric Waite won his only Emmy Award for his work on the miniseries. Captains and the Kings at the Internet Movie Database Enotes Review at Mouthshut

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The Miracle Worker (1979 film)
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Gibsons original source material was The Story of My Life, the 1902 autobiography of Helen Keller. The play was adapted for the screen before, in 1962, the film is based on the life of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivans struggles to teach her. It starred Patty Duke as Annie Sullivan and Melissa Gilbert as Helen Keller and it produced a TV sequel, Helen Keller, The Miracle Continues in 1984. Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution and her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, through persistence and love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helens walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate. Melissa Gilbert as Helen Keller Patty Duke as Annie Sullivan Charles Siebert as Captain Arthur H

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Ingrid Bergman
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Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca and as Alicia Huberman in Notorious, before becoming a star in American films, Bergman had been a leading actress in Swedish films. Her introduction to American audiences came with her role in the English-language remake of Intermezzo. Selznicks financial problems meant that Bergman was often loaned to other studios, apart from Casablanca, her performances from this period include Victor Flemings remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gaslight, and The Bells of St. Marys. Her last films for Selznick were Alfred Hitchcocks Spellbound and Notorious and her final film for Hitchcock was Under Capricorn. After a decade in American films, she starred in Roberto Rossellinis Stromboli, many of her personal and film documents can be seen in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives. According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Bergman quickly became the ideal of American womanhood, in 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Bergman as the fourth-greatest female screen legend of classic American cinema. Bergman, named after Princess Ingrid of Sweden, was born on 29 August 1915 in Stockholm, to a Swedish father, Justus Bergman, when she was two years old, her mother died. Her father, who was an artist and photographer, died when she was 13, in the years before he died, he wanted her to become an opera star, and had her take voice lessons for three years. But she always knew from the beginning that she wanted to be an actress, sometimes wearing her mothers clothes and her father documented all her birthdays with a borrowed camera. After his death, she was sent to live with an aunt and she then moved in with her Aunt Hulda and Uncle Otto, who had five children. Another aunt she visited, Elsa Adler, first told Ingrid, when she was 11, that her mother may have had some Jewish blood, but her aunt also cautioned her about telling others about her possible ancestry as there might be some difficult times coming. Biographer Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, however, notes that the claim of Jewish blood was likely an embellishment, after being forced to do an in-depth genealogical investigation, Bergmans maternal cousin found there to be no Jewish ancestry on Bergmans mothers side. Later, she received a scholarship to the state-sponsored Royal Dramatic Theatre School, after several months she was given a part in a new play, Ett Brott, written by Sigfrid Siwertz. Chandler notes that this was totally against procedure at the school, during her first summer break, she was also hired by a Swedish film studio, which led to her leaving the Royal Dramatic Theatre after just one year, to work in films full-time. Her first film role after leaving the Royal Dramatic Theatre was a part in 1935s Munkbrogreven. She went on to act in a films in Sweden, including En kvinnas ansikte, which was later remade as A Womans Face with Joan Crawford

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Golda Meir
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Golda Meir was an Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman and politician and the fourth elected Prime Minister of Israel. Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17,1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. Former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion used to call Meir the best man in the government, she was portrayed as the strong-willed, straight-talking. Meir resigned as minister in 1974, the year following the Yom Kippur War. She died in 1978 of lymphoma, Golda Mabovitch was born on May 3,1898, in Kiev, Russian Empire, present-day Ukraine, to Blume Neiditch and Moshe Mabovitch, a carpenter. Meir wrote in her autobiography that her earliest memories were of her father boarding up the front door in response to rumours of an imminent pogrom and she had two sisters, Sheyna and Tzipke, as well as five other siblings who died in childhood. She was especially close to Sheyna, Moshe Mabovitch left to find work in New York City in 1903. In his absence, the rest of the moved to Pinsk to join her mothers family. In 1905, Moshe moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in search of higher-paying work, the following year, he had saved up enough money to bring his family to the United States. Blume ran a store on Milwaukees north side, where by age eight Golda had been put in charge of watching the store when her mother went to the market for supplies. Golda attended the Fourth Street Grade School from 1906 to 1912, a leader early on, she organised a fund raiser to pay for her classmates textbooks. After forming the American Young Sisters Society, she rented a hall and she went on to graduate as valedictorian of her class. At 14, she studied at North Division High School and worked part-time and her mother wanted her to leave school and marry, but she demurred. She bought a ticket to Denver, Colorado, and went to live with her married sister. The Korngolds held intellectual evenings at their home, where Meir was exposed to debates on Zionism, literature, womens suffrage, trade unionism, in her autobiography, she wrote, To the extent that my own future convictions were shaped and given form. Those talk-filled nights in Denver played a considerable role, in Denver, she also met Morris Meyerson, a sign painter, whom she later married on December 24,1917. In 1913 she returned to North Division High, graduating in 1915, while there, she became an active member of Young Poale Zion, which later became Habonim, the Labor Zionist youth movement. She spoke at meetings, embraced Socialist Zionism and hosted visitors from Palestine

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A Woman Called Golda
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A Woman Called Golda is a 1982 American made-for-television film biopic of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. The film was directed by Alan Gibson and starred Ingrid Bergman, in her starring role before her death. It also featured Ned Beatty, Franklin Cover, Judy Davis, Anne Jackson, Robert Loggia, Leonard Nimoy, a Woman Called Golda was produced by Paramount Television for syndication and was distributed by Operation Prime Time. The film premiered on April 26,1982, in 1977, Golda Meir returns to her old school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she tells the students her life story. She recounts her early years in Russia, and how her family emigrated to America to avoid the persecution of Jews throughout Europe, as a young woman, Golda dreams of fighting for a country for all Jews of the world. She marries Morris Meyerson, and they move to Palestine to work in a kibbutz, although they soon end up leaving. They move to Jerusalem and have two children, but Goldas tremendous ambition soon drives her and Morris apart, although they remain married until his death in 1951, Golda is elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, resigning after the Yom Kippur War in 1974. The film was nominated for two Golden Globes and won the award for Best Performance by an Actress for Bergman, again awarded posthumously. A Woman Called Golda at the Internet Movie Database A Woman Called Golda at the TCM Movie Database

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Maggie Smith
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Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, CH, DBE, known as Maggie Smith, is an English actress. She has had an extensive, varied career in stage, film, Smith has appeared in over 50 films and is one of Britains most recognisable actresses. Smith began her career on stage at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952 and she received Tony Award nominations for Private Lives and Night and Day, before winning the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage. Other stage roles include Stratford Shakespeare Festival productions of Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth, on screen, Smith first drew praise for the crime film Nowhere to Go, for which she received her first BAFTA Award nomination. She has won two Academy Awards, winning Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite and she is one of only six actresses to have won in both categories. She has won a record four BAFTA Awards for Best Actress, a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress, a six-time Oscar nominee, her other nominations were for Othello, Travels with My Aunt, A Room with a View, and Gosford Park. Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series and her honorary awards include the BAFTA Special Award, the BAFTA Fellowship, and the Special Olivier Award. She received the Stratford Shakespeare Festivals Legacy Award in 2012, Smith was born in Ilford, Essex, but moved with her family to Oxford when she was four years old. She is the daughter of Nathaniel Smith, a Newcastle-born public health pathologist who worked at Oxford University, and Margaret, as a child, her parents used to tell Smith the romantic story of how they had met on the train from Glasgow to London via Newcastle. She has older twin brothers, Alistair and Ian, who went to architecture school and she attended Oxford High School until age sixteen, when she left to study acting at the Oxford Playhouse. In 1952, aged 17, under the auspices of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, in 1954, she appeared in the television programme Oxford Accents produced by Ned Sherrin. In 1957, she starred opposite Kenneth Williams in the musical comedy Share My Lettuce, in 1958, she received the first of her 18 BAFTA Film and TV nominations for her role in the film Nowhere to Go. In 1962, Smith won the first of a record five Best Actress Evening Standard Awards for her roles in Peter Shaffers plays The Private Ear and The Public Eye, again opposite Kenneth Williams. She appeared opposite Olivier in Ibsens The Master Builder and played roles in The Recruiting Officer. Her other films at this time included Go to Blazes, The V. I. P. s, The Pumpkin Eater, Hot Millions and Oh. Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the role of the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Vanessa Redgrave had originated the role on stage in London and Zoe Caldwell won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, the role also won Smith her first BAFTA Award. In 1970, she played the role in Ingmar Bergmans London production of the Ibsen play Hedda Gabler

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My House in Umbria
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My House in Umbria is a 2003 HBO made-for-television movie, based on the novella of the same name by William Trevor and published along with another novella in the volume Two Lives. The film stars Maggie Smith and was directed by Richard Loncraine, emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy, where she runs a pensione for tourists. Mrs Delahunty settled in Italy to flee from a traumatic past which still haunts her. One day while taking a trip to Florence, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the survivors of the disaster to stay at her villa for recuperation. As the group recover from their ordeal, the explosion is being investigated by Inspector Girotti, a local policeman. Responding to the warmth and kindness of Mrs Delahunty and the others, Aimee begins to speak again and they eventually locate her uncle, Thomas Riversmith, a university professor in the US. Via flashbacks it is revealed that Mrs. Delahunty was an orphan who was molested as a child by her adoptive father, at a young age she fled England with a travelling salesman and spent years living as a prostitute before Quinty convinced her to move to Italy. Mrs Delahunty grows to like her new housemates and invites the General and she also works hard to find common ground with Aimees uncle and tries to convince him to leave Aimee with her in Italy rather than taking the child back to America to a loveless home. Meanwhile, Inspector Girotti discovers that Werner was involved in the terrorist attack on the train, Mrs Delahunty reluctantly admits that she has come to the same conclusion, but Werner departs in secret before he can be confronted. Although disappointed by the revelation, Mrs Delahunty is delighted to learn that the General intends to stay on, the film ends with Mrs Delahunty embracing her new circumstances, having finally resolved her inner turmoil. The plot departs substantially from that of William Trevors somber novella, Maggie Smith as Mrs. Innocenti Cecilia Dazzi as Rosa Crevelli Much of the film was made on location in Italy, including Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Siena and Tuscany

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Meryl Streep
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Mary Louise Meryl Streep is an American actress and philanthropist. Nominated for 20 Academy Awards, Streep has more nominations than any actor or actress. Streep has also received 30 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight—more nominations, Streep made her professional stage debut in Trelawny of the Wells in 1975, and in 1976 received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. She made her debut in the 1977 television film The Deadliest Season. In 1978, she won an Emmy Award for her role in the miniseries Holocaust and she went on to win Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer, and Best Actress for Sophies Choice and The Iron Lady. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2010 National Medal of Arts, in 2003, the government of France made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2017, Streep was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. Mary Louise Streep was born on June 22,1949, in Summit, New Jersey, the daughter of Mary Wolf Wilkinson, a commercial artist and art editor, the eldest child, she has two younger brothers, Dana David and Harry William III. Streeps father Harry was of German and Swiss ancestry and her fathers lineage traces back to Loffenau, Germany, from where her second great-grandfather, Gottfried Streeb, immigrated to the United States, and where one of her ancestors served as mayor. Another line of her fathers family was from Giswil, Switzerland and her mother had English, German, and Irish ancestry. Some of Streeps maternal ancestors lived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island and were descended from 17th-century immigrants from England and her eighth great-grandfather, Lawrence Wilkinson, was one of the first Europeans to settle in Rhode Island. Streep is also a distant relative of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, Streeps maternal great-great-grandparents, Manus McFadden and Grace Strain, the namesake of Streeps second daughter, were natives of the Horn Head district of Dunfanaghy, Ireland. Streeps mother, whom she has compared in both appearance and manner to Dame Judi Dench, strongly encouraged her daughter and instilled confidence in her from a young age. Streep has said, She was a mentor because she said to me, Meryl and she was saying, You can do whatever you put your mind to. If youre lazy, youre not going to get it done, but if you put your mind to it, you can do anything. Although Streep was naturally more introverted than her mother, at times when she later needed an injection of confidence in adulthood, she would consult her mother, asking her for advice. Streep was raised as a Presbyterian in Basking Ridge, New Jersey and attended Cedar Hill Elementary School and the Oak Street School, in her Junior High debut, she starred as Lousie Heller in the play The Family Upstairs. In 1963 the family moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, where she attended Bernards High School

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Holocaust (miniseries)
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Holocaust highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War II, such as Kristallnacht, the creation of Jewish ghettos and later, the use of gas chambers. Throughout the series, each member of the Weiss family experiences hardships and are led to a terrible fate, with the exception of Rudi. Dr. Weiss is a doctor from Berlin. After losing his right to treat Aryan patients, he is deported to Poland for being a foreign citizen and he becomes a member of the Judenrat for the Warsaw Ghetto. Josef is sent to Auschwitz along with his wife for attempting to save Jews from the Warsaw Ghettos liquidation process, at Auschwitz, he is assigned to road labor for Uncle Kurt, who is trying to save several Jews by having them work for him. Uncle Kurt then is punished for using Jews when he should not have done so, mrs. Berta Weiss, after her husbands deportation, survives with the help of Inga and her family. She is later deported to the Warsaw Ghetto to be reunited with Josef, Berta then obtains a job teaching at the school before eventually being sent to the gas chamber. Karl Weiss is arrested and sent to Buchenwald, later, a family friend of Ingas, Heinz Muller, has Karl transferred to Theresienstadt where he works in the art studio. He and the other artists secretly make pictures depicting the reality of the Ghetto, when the pictures are discovered, the artists are tortured by the SS and all but Karl die. Karl is then transferred to Auschwitz and put on the Sonderkommandos, subsequently, Karls health deteriorates badly and he dies in 1945, on the day Auschwitz is liberated. Rudi Weiss, having fled from Germany, goes to Czechoslovakia and they escape together to the Ukraine where they fight for years with Jewish partisans, led by Uncle Sasha, a doctor who lost his family earlier in the war. After fighting against both SS and Ukrainian soldiers, Rudi is ultimately captured, and Helena is shot and killed, Rudi wakes up in Sobibor where he meets Leon Feldhandler and Alexander Pechersky and escapes during the uprising. Rudi decides to travel back through Europe and find his family. Moses Weiss owns a pharmacy in Warsaw, when Josef and the Lowys are deported, he finds a place for them to stay. Like his brother, he is put on the Judenrat, after hearing that the SS is planning to kill all Jews in Europe, he starts a resistance movement. This movement fights against the SS in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and they are initially successful, but the SS discovers their secret hiding places and uses gas to force them to walk out and face the wall, where they are all shot. Karls wife, Inga, eventually sacrifices her freedom to him in Theresienstadt where he is commissioned as an artist. Desperately trying throughout most of the series to reach Karl in various camps, threatening to keep her husband involved in heavy physical work if she does not acquiesce to his requests, the SS sergeant rapes her